Philosophy Thursday: Sigmund Freud
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Click Here to Read:  Sigmund Freud on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Freud the philosopher: Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism by David Livingstone Smith on the Aeon Website.

Click Here to Read:  Sigmund Freud (1856—1939) on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website.

Click Here to Read: Freud as Philosopher by Gordon Marino in The New York Times on October 9, 2011. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Sigmund Freud

 ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’
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Click Here to Read:   ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’ by Frederick Crews Reviewed By Carl Rollyson in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 25, 2017>

Click Here to Read:   How we feel about Freud: Susie Orbach and Frederick Crews debate his legacy: Crews, an academic, thinks psychoanalysis is an unscientific jumble of ideas, while psychoanalyst Orbach would prefer not to throw the baby out with the patriarchal bias by Dr Frederick Crews and Susie Orbach on the Guardina website on August 20, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Freud the fraud: a new book reviewed by Jerry Coyne on the Why Evolution is True website.

Click Here to Read: He’s Back: Freddy Crews Claws Freud by George Makari, M.D. on his Revolution in Mind blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 12, 2011. Continue reading  ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’

On Crew’s Freud: The Making on An Illusion: Letter by Nathan Szajnberg
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Dear Editor:

One of Frederick Crews’ earliest books (1963) was “The Pooh Perplex.” But, on Pooh, a professor of English literature can’t build much of an academic career. Then, he infected himself with “Freudianism” (not psychoanalysis nor Freud).  With no documented training nor expertise in the field, he has built his notoriety. This might be like a professor of English literature building a career on critiquing quantum mechanics or neuroscience  — oh, but readers would expect that person to have had some training in those fields.

Nevertheless, this English professor who professes to be an expert in Freud or psychoanalysis now writes a 746 page book critiquing Freud.

His book might better be described as a work of fiction: at best entertaining, but we wouldn’t expect fiction to be true.  Fiction is illusion, which is what Crews has written.

Then again, Crews’ Pooh book was a series of parodies of others. And now, he has parodied himself.
N. Szajnberg MD

Two Psychology Trainees Discuss Their Dissertations at NYPSI
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Two Psychology Trainees Discuss Their Dissertations: Jessica Wolman, PhD and Kate Mannix, MA, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves), Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

NYPSI Works in Progress Seminar:
Two Psychology Trainees Discuss Their Dissertations

This works in progress seminar will be devoted to presentations by two NYPSI trainees who will discuss their dissertations and research.

Jessica Wolman, PhD will present “Aliveness and Deadness in the Therapeutic Process.” Based on the theories of Winnicott, Ogden and Green among others, Dr. Wolman will present 5 clinical cases and show the application of the ideas of these thinkers to her clinical material.

Kate Mannix, MA will present “Narcissism and the Response to Interpersonal Dependency.” Based in part on some ideas of Melanie Klein, Ms. Mannix hypothesizes that narcissism is often a defense against feelings of dependency. In her work she will show by using a variety of measures that when narcissistic individuals are asked to recall thoughts or emotions resulting from dependency on another person, they will show an increased use of defense mechanisms. Continue reading Two Psychology Trainees Discuss Their Dissertations at NYPSI

Meeting the Challenge of Treating Atypically-Wired Children using Psychoanalysis with Susan Sherkow, M.D.. at NYPSI
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Meeting the Challenge of Treating Atypically-Wired Children using Psychoanalysis, Presenter: Susan Sherkow, M.D.. Discussants: Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D. and Robert Scharf, M.D., Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

This presentation aims to demonstrate the confluence of psychoanalysis and neuroscience in the context of the internalization process in neurodevelopment. Dr. Sherkow will present clinical material from the analytic treatment of an “atypically wired” five-and-a-half year old boy focusing on the child’s mental representational world and shedding light on: 1) distortions in the child’s mental representation of mother and being mothered, caused in part by atypical neurocircuitry 2) the impact of these distortions on the mother, the child, and the mother-child relationship 3) how these distortions come through in the transference and 4) how psychoanalysis can help “rewire” the brain to allow for a secure internalization of the mother. Continue reading Meeting the Challenge of Treating Atypically-Wired Children using Psychoanalysis with Susan Sherkow, M.D.. at NYPSI